Thabo Mbeki Quotes - Page 6

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• There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence, without conflict, within the context of the law, bearing in mind the interests of all Zimbabweans both black and white. It's necessary that the Zimbabwean government to respond positively to those sorts of messages.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Black And White, Government, Law

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Giving, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

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  Years, Complaining, Auditors

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon these issues. The fact that we differ about something or the other shouldn't be a matter of strain.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Police, Together

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Issues, Troops

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of government presumes that the bulk of resources from government will come from resources that they will generate themselves.

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  Government, Resources, Bigs

  Source: www.gov.za

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• If you look at the Company Register, maybe that's what we should say to that business consultant or analyst. If you look at the Company Register with the Department of Trade and Industry, one of the remarkable things that you will see over the last few years is, in fact, the growth of small and medium business, many of whom depend on these services to succeed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Growth, Lasts

  Source: www.gov.za

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• What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Support, Empowerment, Black

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Rights, Land

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Talking, Investors, Not Talking

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Interesting, Way, Engagement

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows an institution that is set up in terms of the role and function and powers of the institutional traditional leadership ( borrows that committee and uses that committee).

  Thabo Mbeki

  Rights, Land, Community

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Numbers, America, Agreement

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders.

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  Land, Issues, Community

  Source: www.gov.za

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• It will be a comprehensive response. The ID issue is one of them. It will make sure that Home Affairs has the capacity to reach people and to make sure that the people themselves know that they have got to get these documents and where to go to get them.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Home, Issues, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Levels, Addresses

  Source: www.gov.za

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• While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

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  Helping, Negotiation, Should

  Source: www.gov.za

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• If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Government, Trying

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We have been engaging the Government of Swaziland for some time on this issue of the democratization of Swaziland. In particular, I had asked the Deputy President to engage the Government on this and, indeed, he has. We will continue to do this, because we do think that, as has been communicated to the Government of Swaziland, that Swaziland must go through this democratization process, a constitution-making process in which they have been engaged for some time, and really seek a national consensus about it.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Government, Issues

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You need to be able to do that to market these possibilities to these specific investors who would be interested in a sector of that kind. It's what would be normally done by anybody with regard to attracting investment to particular sectors of the economy.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Would Be, Needs, Done

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Phones, Cells, Law

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you were old or young, man or woman, in a village or a town, it didn't matter.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Men, Black

  Source: www.tregernomics.com

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• The matters I am talking about regarding the ports. That matter has been discussed with the unions, and agreed, and therefore there is no particular reason why there should be a problem about it. We will continue to move like that. We need the engagement of the unions in these processes.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Moving, Talking, Needs

  Source: www.gov.za

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